Quotes About Fulfillment

Stop focusing on the noise and the expectations of others, and focus on what makes you happy.

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

As a kid, I dreamed of being nominated for a Grammy.

I've been invited to the Grammys with other friends who were nominated. I'm like, 'Naw, I'm not gonna go until it's my time.' And who knew it was gonna be, like, the next year? It's crazy.

I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.

I feel like I'm on the inside for the first time. Inside the castle. I have an Emmy nomination!

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

From the time I roll out of the cot at 6 A.M. to the time I fall asleep after midnight, I get to do what I love nonstop.

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

I realized I deserve to be happy and have all the things I want in life. It might be scary and outside the norm of what everybody else does, but I need to just go for it.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

I feel like once my career is all done and dusted, and I've done everything I could have possibly done, then that's my glory. Then I can live, and have a normal life, and go have kids. I love wrestling, but when that day comes, I'm going back home and I'm starting a family.

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

Everyone wants to play. If you don't, normally you're not happy.

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have new problems that arise which you are not anticipating and you deal with the same problems you would deal with if you were ageing normally: what is the end of life about? What have I accomplished?

Normally, I bolt at the idea of playing anyone for too long because I don't want it to become dull and like another job.

To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.

First Day Out' just took off under our noses. I was shocked. I was happy. I can't even explain the feeling. It's something I always wanted my whole life.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

I finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I'm not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.

I am not interested to do a five-minute role in a film which is not exciting to me.